Music

In August, the winners of the 1st Beijing International Fryderyk Chopin Piano Competition for Young Pianists will tour Poland at the invitation of the Adam Mickiewicz Institute. The young Chinese pianists will visit places related to Fryderyk Chopin, including Warsaw and the composer’s birthplace in Żelazowa Wola. Read more »about: Winners of Beijing Chopin Competition Visit Chopin's Homeland

From 25th to 29th October 2017, Katowice will host one of the most prestigious musical events in Europe – the WOMEX World Music Expo. Four Polish groups will perform at the opening concert: Aukso, Vołosi, Kapela Maliszów and Lautari. Read more »about: Polish Bands to Inaugurate WOMEX 2017

The word ‘folk’ can often box in musicians and force them to craft their sound to fit the traditional vibe of Polish folk music. The modern Polish folk scene tosses this limit on creativity out the window without forgetting their roots. These six bands continue to innovate and blend genres seamlessly. Folk your life up and enjoy! Read more »about: 6 Polish Folk Bands That Throw Tradition Out of the Box

Exhibitions, concerts, performances, publications, lectures, conferences… These and other events organised by dozens of museums, theatres, galleries, and other cultural and educations institutions will mark the centenary of the avant-garde movement in Poland. Read more »about: 2017: The Centenary of Polish Avant-garde

The art of sampling draws on the ability to manipulate and combine small snippets from other songs to create a completely new product. In rap, it’s often hard to figure out where a sample comes from. Thankfully, Culture.pl is here to help: we’ve compiled a mixtape of famous American rap tracks with samples from incredibly influential Polish musicians. Vibe away! Read more »about: Polish Music in American Hip-Hop: 9 Unexpected Samples

Are you ready for more Finnegans Wake? On 4th May 2017, the international artistic cooperation known as Waywords and Meansigns will release the third installment of its ongoing project of setting James Joyce’s masterpiece to music. More than 100 artists from 15 different countries have contributed their talents to the upcoming release, including a handful of Poles. Read more »about: Polish Musicians Look for Meaning in Finnegans Wake

Tallinn Music Week (TMW), Music Estonia, Estonian song contest Eesti Laul and Don’t Panic! We’re from Poland have joined their forces again to organise another professional song-writing camp in the Baltics from 27 - 30 March 2017. The writing and recording period will last for two days (March 28 and 29). Read more »about: Songwriting Camp as Part of Tallinn Music Week

A remarkable new interpretation of Henryk Górecki’s classic Sorrow has had both classical enthusiasts and contemporary fans turning their heads. In an interview for Culture.pl, Colin Stetson explains his thinking and feelings about the Polish composer’s influence on him, and why his album adds metal and drone elements to one of his favourite compositions.
Read more »about: Górecki Meets Drone: An Interview with Colin Stetson

He speaks more than 20 languages and has turned his name into a well-known brand around the world, from Brazil to Japan. But there’s no sign of him slowing down. For 30 years now, we have been observing the White Wolf’s impressive march across all forms of media. Culture.pl looks back at all his different routes and where he might be headed next. Read more »about: The Witcher: The Road from Rivia to Hollywood

The Fifth International Discovering Paderewski Festival, the most important and biggest Polish-Ukrainian music event, will start in Lviv on 11th November 2016. At the festival, an opera by Ignacy Jan Paderewski entitled Manru with a new arrangement by Jerzy Maksymiuk will have its premiere in the form of a concert – a unique Polish-Ukrainian coproduction. Read more »about: Discovering Paderewski Festival Returns to Lviv

What does it feel like to take a space walk? Can you explain that feeling to somebody who will never get a chance to do it? In a unique story that brought art and emotion to a scientific project costing billions of dollars, a small group found that perhaps Chopin’s music was capable of explaining the inexplicable. Read more »about: Chopin: The Latest Polish Astronaut

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Paweł Szpura

Paweł Szpura is a Warsaw-based drummer, strongly connected with the Pardon, To Tu club scene. Although Szpura has not attended any music school, up to now, at the age of 34 he has already played with such masters as: Peter Brotzmann, Pheeroan akLaff, Hamid Drake, Nicole Mitchell, and Maria Raducanu.Read more »about: Paweł Szpura

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Łukasz Twarkowski is an author of theatre plays, performances, installations and movies, and a member of an interdisciplinary Identity Problem Group collective whose aim so to combine visual and performative arts with literature, architecture and soundart. He’s a director at Polski Theater in Wrocław and National Stary Theater in Kraków.Read more »about: Łukasz Twarkowski